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On 2006-07-12 at 11:00 +0200, Hakim Cassimally wrote: > windows-r brings up a mini command line. When I used windows I used > that for pretty much all of my application launching. Sure it mean > you had to remember "excel" but "winword" and "powerpnt", but with > command-line completion that wasn't too heavy. I add aliases. > I could never quite work out where these names were registered > (they're not in PATH, but are the short names which respond to "start > progname" in command line, I rifled through the registry a couple of > times to try to work it out, unsuccessfully). I found it, when I got fed up with not being able to run PuTTY that way; I've since added a few others. The main limitation is that you're limited to .exe, from what I recall, so no .bat. The other is that whilst you can specify that a program takes drag&drop, you can't otherwise massage the parameters. That, in combination with the lack of .bat files, means that I haven't yet gotten to be able to type "zsh" and get a properly-working Cygwin zsh setup. By setting the Path first, it's almost working, but I need to manually source the login files which do the rest of the critical setup. If someone knows how I can get to run "zsh -l" then I'll be very interested to know. I suspect that the answer involves a compiler. ;^) You can have the target be a .lnk file (pointing directly to the .exe), so I have pcmd.exe pointing to my menu shortcut for a command-prompt, which changes the font to something smaller and increases the window size, etc. -----------------------------< cut here >------------------------------- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\ Directory: cmdname.exe (Default) REG_SZ X:\path\to\cmdname.exe Path REG_SZ X:\path\to\ DropTarget REG_SZ {CLSID} Default key is command to run. Option Path key adds a semicolon-separated list of paths to the end of the %PATH% presented to the program. DropTarget is IDropTarget implementor; if present, then dropped files are not put onto the cmdline as parameters but instead passed directly. <URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/programmersguide/shell_basics/shell_basics_extending/fileassociations/fa_perceived_types.asp> ShellExecute() looks in: * Current working directory * Windows directory * Windows\System32 directory * Directories listed in PATH environment variable * the "App Paths" registry key Order of this lookup varies; XP SP1 moves App Paths to top -----------------------8< cut here: putty.reg >8------------------------ Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\putty.exe] @="C:\\Program Files\\PuTTY\\putty.exe" ----------------------------8< cut here >8------------------------------ -----------------------------< cut here >------------------------------- > I'd note that windows-m isn't as useful as you'd think for hiding pron > as it responds very slowly in some cases as every window has to > respond and animate the minimize window command. The "Show Desktop" > option is quicker, though I forget what keyboard combination that's > mapped to. Windows-D (for Desktop). I use that, Win-R and sometimes Win-E. -- VISTA: Viruses, Infections, Spyware, Trojans & AdwareThere's stuff above here
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